TWERPS was originally created, written and illustrated ( in a distinctive cartoony style ) by " Jeff & ' Manda Dee ", Jeff Dee being a noted game illustrator and co-writer of Villains and Vigilantes.

Villains and Vigilantes was the first role-playing game designed by Jack Herman and Jeff Dee, featuring illustrations by Dee.

Four years after the adventure booklet was published, the setting of the first adventure was used as the basis of a Villains and Vigilantes comic book mini-series by Dee and Herman published by Eclipse Comics.

Similarly, a Villains and Vigilantes character, The Dark, later appeared in a series of comic books by the independent publisher Continüm Comics.

* From late December 1863 to 1864 the Montana Vigilantes were formed by citizens of Bannack, Virginia City and nearby Nevada City to fight lawlessness in the gold mining region of Montana.

Vigilantes gathered by Mayor William Douty shot into a group of strikers, wounding twelve and killing two.

He was replaced by drummer Travis McNabb, formerly of the band Vigilantes of Love, who was tapped to play on the band's upcoming album, Friction Baby.

All were modified in appearance by Melbourne business La Parisienne-one as the MFP bike ridden by ' The Goose ' and the balance for members of the Toecutter's gang, played in the film by members of a local Victorian motorcycle club, the Vigilantes.

* Folk / Alternative singer / songwriter Bill Mallonee includes references to the Great Wallenda stepping out over Tallulah Gorge in his song " Balaam's Ass " from the recording Blister Soul by the Vigilantes of Love.

The chain and other restaurants ' aggressive menu distribution in the Upper West Side of Manhattan caused the " Menu Wars " of the 1990s, including invasions of Empire Szechuan by the " Menu Vigilantes ", the revoking of its cafe license, several lawsuits, and physical attacks on menu distributors.

Vigilantes of Love is a rock band fronted by Bill Mallonee with a large number of secondary players drawn from the musician pool in and around Athens, Georgia.

" Coleman replied the San Franciscans " were tired of it, and had no faith in the officers of the law .” After personal negotiations between Governor Johnson and the Vigilantes over transferring the criminals to state law enforcement failed, Johnson watched helplessly as both Casey and Cora were hanged by the Vigilantes on May 20.

San Francisco Mayor James Van Ness, with the municipal police and sheriff departments overwhelmed by the Vigilantes continued armed presence in the city's streets, pleaded to the Governor for military assistance.

In some areas of Spain that are unable to have a local Municipal Police their function is performed by the Guardia Civil or Autonomous Community force who are assisted by officers know as " Vigilantes Municipales " who are uniformed municipal employees with limited powers.

Bill Mallonee of the Vigilantes of Love ( also a Christian from Athens, Georgia ) wrote a song inspired by Finster's artwork called The Glory and the Dream in 1994.

* Jefferson Randolph Smith, crime boss in Skagway, Alaska shot dead by Vigilantes.

He plans to change history by stealing prototype time machines from Stanford University's quantum physics lab, travel back to the 1970s, and eliminate the Vigilantes to ensure OMAR's supremacy.

However, the team lost its last two games, first to the 1 – 13 Dallas Vigilantes and then closed out the year on the road losing to the Spokane Shock.

It looked like the ' Cats were going on a winning streak after they won the next three games ( 75-55 against the Utah Blaze, 42-33 against the Tulsa Talons, and 68-61 against the Philadelphia Soul ), but after a bye week they went on a devastating seven game losing streak ( 65-43 against the Arizona Rattlers, 54-48 against the Pittsburgh Power, 76-68 against the Utah Blaze, 55-49 against the Georgia Force, 70-57 against the Dallas Vigilantes, 64-57 against the Arizona Rattlers, and 82-21 against the Cleveland Gladiators ).

By the next week, Vigilantes marched on the city jail, overpowering its guards to arrest Casey, along with criminal Charles Cora, who had fatally shot a U. S. Marshal the previous year.

Meanwhile, the California Militia, under the new command of Major General Volney E. Howard, continued to gather arms in the city for its companies that Sherman had begun, but suffered a major setback when on June 21, 1856, Vigilantes seized the arms schooner Julia, depriving the state militia its arms supply and a majority of its muskets.

Chassey Blue embarks on a Hollywood career, releasing her self-titled movie based on the adventures of the Vigilantes.

* McGrath, Roger D. Gunfighters, Highwaymen, and Vigilantes: Violence on the Frontier., University of California Press, Mar 23, 1987

Henry Plummer ( 1832 – 1864 ) served as sheriff of what became Bannack, Montana, from May 24, 1863 until January 10, 1864, when he was hanged without legal system trial by the controversial Montana Vigilantes.

Villains and Vigilantes ( abbreviated as V & V ) is a superhero-themed role-playing game which competed primarily with Champions and Superworld in the early to mid 1980s.

The current Dallas Vigilantes franchise is an expansion team unrelated to either the Texans or Desperados.

Bill Mallonee ( b. January 1, 1955, in Martinsville, Virginia ) is the songwriter and leader of Vigilantes of Love, an Americana / Alt-Country / Rock band from Athens, Georgia.

Great Falls International Airport is also home to Great Falls Air National Guard Base and the Montana Air National Guard's 120th Fighter Wing ( 120 FW ), the " Vigilantes.

Shane Stafford ( born March 14, 1976 in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania ) is a gridiron football quarterback for the Dallas Vigilantes of Arena Football League ( 2010 ).

All the characters are presented with characteristics for with three different systems, Superworld, Champions and Villains & Vigilantes.

Fantasy Games Unlimited published the first edition of Villains and Vigilantes in 1979.

The second edition of Villains and Vigilantes was published in 1982 with significant rule revisions.

Characters in Villains and Vigilantes reflected the unique nature of the rules.

Vigilantes may assault targets verbally or physically or may vandalize property or actually kill individuals.

Vigilantes have been central to several creative fictional works and in some cases have been depicted as heroes and retaliatory forces against wrongdoers.

* Comfort Ero, “ Vigilantes, Civil Defence Forces and Militia Groups: The other side of the privatization of security in Africa ,” Conflict Trends ( June 2000 ): 25-29.

In the 1980s, electronic rock band New Order featured the melodica prominently in songs such as " Truth ," " Your Silent Face ," " Love Vigilantes " and others.

In 1997, the league added the Chico Heat, while Palm Springs took the year off and Long Beach became the Mission Viejo Vigilantes.

Mark Heard released 16 records in his lifetime, and produced and performed with many other artists as well, such as Sam Phillips ( aka Leslie Phillips ), Pierce Pettis, Phil Keaggy, Vigilantes of Love, Peter Buck of R. E. M.

With the formation of Fingerprint Records and his studio, Heard began to produce albums for a number of artists including two albums for Randy Stonehill, Jacob's Trouble, Pierce Pettis and 1992's Vigilantes of Love album, Killing Floor, which he co-produced with R. E. M.

Artists lending their talents to the project included Phil Keaggy, Victoria Williams, Chagall Guevara, Buddy Miller, Julie Miller, Daniel Amos, The Choir, Bruce Cockburn, and the Vigilantes of Love.

Vigilantes in the public and private sector used force to drive individual Saints from Jackson to nearby counties within Missouri ; eventually, Latter Day Saints were given until the end of November 6, 1833 to leave the county en masse.